UC Davis Resources
This office helps students explore majors, careers, and internships.
What is the Internship and Career Center (ICC)?
The Guardian Scholars Program supports students with this lived experience.
What is foster care?
This event celebrates foster youth achievements at UC Davis each May.
What is Foster Care Awareness Month?
This form is used to apply for federal and state financial aid, including for foster youth.
What is the FAFSA (or CADAA)?
Foster youth in California are eligible for extended care until this age.
What is 21?
This center offers free mental health counseling to all UC Davis students.
What is CAPS (Counseling Services)?
GSP offers these types of workshops focused on self-advocacy, career readiness, and life skills.
What are personal and professional development workshops?
This annual event lets students showcase their talents, including those from GSP.
What is GSP’s Got Talent?
Foster youth may qualify for this tuition waiver at UC Davis.
What is the Chafee Grant or California Foster Youth Tuition Waiver?
This law ensures former foster youth can get priority registration at UC campuses.
What is AB 194?
The UC Davis pantry provides this to students in need.
What is free food and basic needs supplies?
GSP provides students with this special campus space to study, relax, and connect, (and where?)
What is the Center fot the Guardian Scholars at South Hall 16
This student organization supports former foster youth by creating community and advocacy opportunities.
What is Foster Youth Student Union?
This emergency grant is available through GSP for urgent needs.
What is the GSP Emergency Grant?
Youth who were in foster care at any time after this age qualify for independent status on the FAFSA.
What is age 13?
This department helps students find housing both on and off campus.
What is Student Housing and Dining Services?
Guardian Scholars helps students connect with this type of mentor, and are led by a Program Advisor, Director, Cordinator.
What are peer mentors and staff advocates? Who is Val? Who is Espiritu?
This is the mascot of UC Davis.
What is Gunrock the Mustang?
Foster youth can access these free items to move into their apartments via this community program.
What is Make It Happen?
True or False: All foster youth at UC Davis automatically know about the Guardian Scholars Program.
What is False? Spread the Word about GSP!
This program supports basic needs, like food security and emergency grants.
What is the Aggie Compass Basic Needs Center?
GSP collaborates with this UC Davis center to provide emergency housing resources.
What is Aggie Compass?
The grant we can provide to students for unpaid research internships etc..
What is the GSP Opportunity grant?
The Financial Aid Liaison for GSP
What is Leonardo M Flores ' role?
Name one key challenge that foster youth often face in higher education.
What is housing insecurity, financial instability, or lack of family support?